Part Of

James Tirrul-Jones Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

7 Apr 1985

Accession Number

985.35

Scope and Content

Photographs of an old house west of Highway 37 46km from Kitimat.

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.30

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

"The Sagimat" notes (hand-written, 35 pages)

1955 - Sagimat's First Construction Year. From The sagimat Vol. 1 No.13, Dec 24, 1955 (2 pages)

The Sagimat Vol.3 No.1, Jan 7 1957. Christmas Day at Saguenay Lodge (2 pages)

The Sagimat Vol.2 No.1 29 June 1956. Progress in Pictures, Startling Achievement Recalled (2 pages)

The Sagimat Vol.3 No.33 Aug 23, 1957. Regarding Kitimat dock. (1 page)

The Sagimat Vol.3 No.37 Sept 25, 1957. The Sandhill (2 pages)

Diary of Construction at Kitimat. 27 May 1957 to 8 December. John Sullivan, Alcan Museum. (hand-written, 5 pages)

Agreement Between The Government of the Province of British Columbia and Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited. 29 Dec, 1950. (13 pages)

Province of British Columbia Departmen of Lands and Forests, Water Rights Branch Conditional Water Licence (2 pages)

The Government of the Province of British Columbia, Department of Lands and Forests Permit Under the "Water Act, 1939", Authorizing the Occupation of Crown Lands (2 pages)

Project Post Vol.1 No.27 July 18, 1953. Those Were the Days. (3 pages)

Kitimat-Giants Among Giants by Harold Hilliard. The Star Weekly, July 31, 1954 (3 pages)

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.31

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

the Story of Helicopters in Canada by Les Edwards, in the Canadian Geographic Journal (hand-written)

George Woodcock, Ravens and Prophits. Allan Wingate, London 1952 (hand-written)

Kitimat George B. Barbour (5 pages)

Albert W. Whitaker, Aluminum Trail. Edited by T.L. Brock. Alcan and Archives, Alcan Press. Montreal, 1974 (hand-written, 9 pages)

Pierre Berton McLean's Article, Return to BC (3 pages)

Kitimat Men grasped Nature's clenched fist and wrenched open her bountiful hand. Oblate Missions Kitimat (3 pages)

At Kitimat, Men Juggle Geography (2 pages)

Pioneering With a Modern Touch. Kitimat housewives have electric gadgets like their city sisters by Clare Hucal

Big Alcan Project Nears Completion. News Herald Oct 9, 1953

Gigantic Caissons Floated To Kitimat Dock Positions. Colonist July 19, 1953

Hardware Magazine Spring 1953 with article Project British Columbia (8 pages)

The Star Weekly, Kitimat Close-up by James Y. Nicol

Kitimat's Not Northern BC by D.A. McGregor

Kitimat - Aluminum Bonanza, Five huge projects will create an industrial empire in north BC by Cecil Hotson (2 pages)

Stakes and Steaks in BC Wilds, There's big money and luscious meals for the workers on the Aluminum project at Kemano rd. by Pat Denton

World's Biggest Hydro Project Now Under Way in BC by A. Sahonovitch (5 pages)

RMS Dogteam - Kitimat to Hazelton by M.W. Boss (4 pages)

Business Directory

Kitimat Favored as Aluminum Site, Power for Proposed Plant Would Come From Tweedsmuir Park Area. The Vancouver Sun, March 23 1950

Aluminum Co. Kitimat Dock with photo. The Vancouver Province, July 11 1953

Permanent Dock Site with photo. Vancouver News Herald July 13, 1953

World's Greatest Aluminum Plant Transforms BC Village Into City; Kitimat Will Have 50000 People. Kamloops Sentinel, June 12, 1953

Giant Powerhouse in Mountain's Bowel. Oct 9, 1953 (2 pages)

The Alcan Story article

Alcan Smelter Changes the Scenery at Kitimat. The Vancouver Sun, Oct 10, 1953

Kildala Pass Challenge Won By Kitimat Crews article

Kitimat Production Expected in Eight Months. Colonist On-the-Spot Report. Oct 10, 1953

Eventual 12 Kitimat Potlines Bigger Than Downtown Victoria. Colonist Oct 11, 1953

Model City Being Hewn from Kitimat Wilderness. Colonist Oct 14, 1953

Story of Kitimat Aluminum Site Goes Back 300 Years. Powell River News Aug 25, 1954

Kitimat articles from The Illustrated London News, March 12, 1955

Rocks, Mud Gave Birth to Baby of BC - Now Planners Run Kitimat. The Vancouver Province May 29, 1954

Bonus Helps Kitimat Folk Build Own Homes. The Vancouver Province, June 2, 1954

Builders Pioneers Find Life Together Not Too Easy at First. The Vancouver Province, June 4 1954

Steaks are big-and you can have two, The Kitchen at Kitimat is Tops by Ed Moyer

Kitimat Now His Home, Wanderer Birk Settles Down by Ed Moyer

Kitimat's Stll Rough, Tough But Big Aluminum Town Miracle in the Wilds. Vancouver Sun July 3, 1954

Tough Aluminum Town's Getting Domesticated. Vancouver Sun July 3, 1954

Town in Forest Grows up Fast at Kitimat Homes Isolated But Not for Long. Vancouver Sun, July 5, 1954

$30000 Bet in One Night, Friendly Game Played Nightly at Kitimat by Alex Young. Vancouver Sun, July 6, 1954

Kitimat's Huge Heart Beats Inside Mountain by Alex Young. Vancouver Sun July 9, 1954

New Oportunities Open, completion at Kitimat presages large future development year-round ice-free port is rapidly becoming operational by Harry Chapin Plummer. From Canadian Shipping + Marine Engineering News, March 1954

The Superintendant Visits Kemano and Kitimat at Eastertide. The LOG. March, April, May 1952 (2 pages)

A Master Plan For The Town of Kitimat. Vancouver Public Library, Sep 22 1953

A Tale of Two Cities by N.H. Richardson. Published in "Plan: the Town Planning Institute of Canada". Vol. 4 No. 3, 1963 (hand-written, 10 pages)

Alcan Ingot, 1949 (hand-written, 2 pages)

Kitimat Townsite Report. Feb 29

Booklets - Aluminum in Breif, Kitimat Works BC, Alcan in canada, Alcan facts 1975

Part Of

James Tirrul-Jones Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

21-22 Jul 1982

Accession Number

982.88

Scope and Content

Photographs of Clara Bolton weaving cedar baskets and damage to Century House following a fire.

Part Of

James Tirrul-Jones Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

22 Feb 1987

Accession Number

987.11

Scope and Content

Photographs of the senior citizens tea gathering.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

2005

Scope and Content

Alcan's 50th Anniversary Collection 1954-2004. Includes Corporate Affairs DVD "Kitimat Works 50th Anniversary 1954-2004, 1.Cynthia Carrole Message, 2.Ceremonial Ingot Pour, 3.Highlight Video

Part Of

Braun Family Albums Collection

Description Level

Series

Date Range

[1984]

Accession Number

984.53.21

Scope and Content

Slides of Carlson's House in 1925

Part Of

Montserrat Gonzalez Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. Oct 1994]

Accession Number

2017.44

Scope and Content

Slides showing a Halloween haunted house at the Kitimat Museum. Photographs showing children dressed in costumes at the museum.

Part Of

Braun Family Albums Collection

Description Level

Series

Date Range

[1984]

Accession Number

984.53.20

Part Of

Jack Cornelis Collection

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

2004.5

Scope and Content

Album showing Memorabilia of Alcan Kitimat Works employees. All the photos have been taken from the Ingots - unfortunately, not all have dates and years to identify the photos.

Part Of

Kitimat Citizenship Council Collection

Description Level

Series

Date Range

1964-1980

Accession Number

988.1.1-3

Scope and Content

Guest registers from the Kitimat Citizenship Council.

Folder 1 - Guest Register, 1964-1971

Folder 2 - Guest Register, 1971-1976

Folder 3 - Guest Register, 1976-1980

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1979] - 23 Jul 1984

Accession Number

2004.16

Scope and Content

Negatives showing aerial images of the Alcan aluminum smelter from different distances and angles.

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.14

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

Canada on the Pacific by Charles Horetzky (1 page)

Handbook of Indians of Canada, Hodge (2 pages)

Mayne, Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. Explorations in Jervis Inlet and Desolation Sound, British Columbia (5 pages)

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1979]

Accession Number

2004.16

Scope and Content

Negatives showing aerial photographs of Kitimat schools (Mount Elizabeth, Roy Wilcox, Nechako, Alexander, St. Anthony's, Cormorant, & Kildala).

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.4

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

Spellings of Kitimat (hand-written, 2 pages)

Letter to Mr. Harvey regarding names of places in Kitimat, Nov 1, 1949, Archives of British Columbia Raley Collection (1 page)

Kitamaat, Now Kitimat, Archives of British Columbia Raley Collection (3 pages)

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.5

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

British Columbia Heritage Series - Series 1, Our Native Peoples - Volume 7, Kwakiutl. Prep by Provincial Archives, Provincial Museum, Victoria, 1966. (A Social Studies Bulletin of the Dept. of Education) (hand-written, 4 pages)

From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series III Volume IX, 1915. The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes by E. Sapir, Ph.D. (12 pages)

Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the Year 1887 Volume V, Montreal Dawson Brothers, Publishers, 1888. People of Vancouver Island/G.M. Dawson on the Kwakiool (36 pages)

Jenness, Indians of Canada, Chap XXI, "Tribes of the Pacific Coast, p. 344-45 (hand-written, 26 pages)

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.7

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

Northern Sentinel April 15, 1954 1st issue, High Expectations - railway, Kitimat pulp + paper co Ltd, Alcan Power to Begin in July or August (hand-written, 17 pages)

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.9

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

Edited by Arnott J. Magurn, Ottawa, 1901. The Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Work of General Reference, 1901 (hand-written, 21 pages)

Guide to the Province of British Columbia, for 1877-8. Victoria : T.N. Hibben+Co., publishers, 1877 (hand-written, 5 pages)

The Mysterious Token of C.W.D. Clifford by Ronald Greene (3 pages)

Journals of the Legislative Assembly, session 1903-1904, Vol. XXXIII (3 pages)

Journals of the Legislative Assembly, session 1902, Vol. XXXI (1 page)

Journals of the Legislative Assembly 1900, Vol. XXIX (5 pages)

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.10

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

Railroads that never were... (clipping)

Stan Rough Collection. P.G.E. : Railway to the North by Bruce Ramsey. Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 1962 (hand-written, 1 page_

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly Session 1899, Vol. XXVIII. No. 11A. Petition

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly Session 1898, Vol. XXVII. No. 19. Petition

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly Session 1898, Vol. XXVII. No. 16. Petition

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly January Session 1900, Vol. XXIX. No. 14. Petition

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly July Session 1900, Vol. XXIX. No. 10. Petition

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly July Session 1900, Vol. XXIX. No. 13. Petition

Appendices to Journals of the Legislative Assembly July Session 1902, Vol. XXXI. No. 3. Petition

Part Of

Patricia Robertson Fonds

Description Level

Series

Accession Number

995.8.16

Scope and Content

Folder containing research material.

Ice Age In The Lakelse-Kitimat Valley. From Geology of the Terrace Map Area by S. Duffell and J.G, Souther (1 page)